WHILE the guitar is regular-sized the inside is anything but for this musical-themed dollhouse created by a talented Australian furniture maker for her college-bound daughter.

Lorraine Robinson can make pretty much anything you want at a scale of one twelfth. One of her most recent projects was creating a dollhouse from a guitar for her daughter Cathryn's 25th birthday, right after Christmas.

Using the guitar (her own from when she was younger) as the exterior she filled the space with study-themed objects to herald her music-loving daughter’s commencement at Adelaide’s Flinders University.

From the miniature family portrait on the wall to the computer’s Flinders University screen saver - the detail on this one-of-a-kind dollhouse is incredible.

Pens are made from toothpicks, lampshades covered with music sheets, newspaper articles are shrunk down to fit in this mini music-themed utopia. Working over a period of two weeks on the project she spent between 5-10 hours a day perfecting the gift.

Robinson estimates that a commission like this would normally cost between $1500 -$1600.

Robinson has been creating big things on a small scale since 1996 after falling in love with her sister’s dollhouse in 1991.

Frustrated at the lack of ‘miniatures’ available in Australia she has since become the largest distributor of dollhouse furniture in Australia.

Since opening the doors to her own business in 2006 Robinson has served a dedicated client-base of dollhouse lovers for the young and young at heart with 80% of her customers with ages ranging from 25-74 years old.

Her strangest request for miniatures so far has been a commission for coffee beans at a twelfth of their usual size. “What for?” I hear you ask. To go inside a miniature coffee machine of course.

Robinson is currently working on a complete replica of her own kitchen at a twelfth of its size.

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